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Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Potentially Polluting Wrecks
This open access volume focuses on the environmental hazards and cultural significance of Potentially Polluting Wrecks (PPWs), and how mitigation efforts have assisted in documenting and preserving the history of these sites. It is an important resource on the subject of Potentially Polluting Wrecks that synthesizes previously published information that was not academically or scientifically pr…
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- 978-3-031-57960-8
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- XII, 159
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- SpringerBriefs in Archaeology (BRIEFSARCHAE)
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Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Bottom Trawling
This open access book focuses on the destruction of our Ocean Heritage from bottom trawling. It brings together the natural and cultural sides of the marine environment to further our understanding of the importance of this heritage, how it is threatened by activities such as bottom trawling, and provides recommendations, such as a moratorium in particularly vulnerable areas that are currently …
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- 978-3-031-57953-0
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- XVII, 109
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- SpringerBriefs in Archaeology (BRIEFSARCHAE)
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The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami : Historical and Political Perspec…
This open access book is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people in Fennoscandia, a social and cultural group that often is overlooked as it is a minority within the Saami minority. Based on both historical material such as archaeological evidence, 20th century newspapers, and postcard motives as well as current sources such …
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- 1
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- 9783030050290
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- XI, 186 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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World Archaeo-Geophysics : Integrated minimally invasive approaches using cou…
This open access volume showcases the intersection of geophysics and archaeology on a global scale, emphasising the evolution and application of geophysical methods in archaeological research and cultural heritage management. It compiles contributions from 74 experts based in 18 countries, with their research and case studies spanning across 24 different countries, focusing on the use of near-s…
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- 978-3-031-57900-4
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- XXVIII, 482
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- One World Archaeology (WORLDARCH)
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- 900 WOR
The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes
This open access volume provides for the first time a comprehensive description and scientific evaluation of underwater archaeological finds referring to human occupation of the continental shelf around the coastlines of Europe and the Mediterranean when sea levels were lower than present. These are the largest body of underwater finds worldwide, amounting to over 2500 find spots, ranging from …
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- 978-3-030-37367-2
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- XXVIII, 561
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- Coastal Research Library (COASTALRL, volume 35)
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- 900 ARC
The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China : Indigenous Bai Yue and…
This open access book presents multidisciplinary research on the cultural history, ethnic connectivity, and oceanic transportation of the ancient Indigenous Bai Yue (百越) in the prehistoric maritime region of southeast China and southeast Asia. In this maritime Frontier of China, historical documents demonstrate the development of the “barbarian” Bai Yue and Island Yi (岛夷) and their …
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- 9789811640797
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- XXIII, 264 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- 4
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Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimatology, antiquity, historical geography, agriculture, carving art and literacy. The Silk Road is a …
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- 9783030007287
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- XXVI, 525 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe : Archaeology, Dendrochronology,…
This is an open access book. Unique in its scope, this book provides for the first time a Southern European perspective on prehistoric wetland settlements and their natural environment. These are dwellings originally built in humid locations, i.e. on shores and in shallow water areas of lakes, bogs, marshes, rivers, estuaries and lagoons. The relevant archaeological remains are in most cases wa…
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- 978-3-031-52780-7
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- XVI, 318
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- Natural Science in Archaeology (ARCHAEOLOGY)
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- 900 PRE
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, an…
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- 978-3-031-03956-0
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Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
Estella Weiss-Krejci is an archaeologist and social anthropologist. She received a PhD and a venia docendi from the University of Vienna. Her research interests include ancient Maya water management and mortuary behavior, and dead-body politics in prehistoric, medieval, and post-medieval Europe. She has been a recipient of grants awarded by the Austrian Science Fund, the Portuguese Science and …
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- 978-3-031-03956-0
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- Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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- XII, 317
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